Cleverness Quotes · Page 5

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

— Criss Jami

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

— Laozi

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

— Elbert Hubbard

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

— Khalil Gibran

The only difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has its limits.

— Babloo

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

— François De La Rochefoucauld

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

— Honore de Balzac

You do not become smarter by blowing your own horn. You become smarter by being humble

— Babloo

“Regalia Mason frightened her because she was very clever and almost kind sometimes, the way people who didn't care about you at…

— Jeanette Winterson

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

— Israel Zangwill

“The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I always LOVE to keep my friends company whenever I see theyre ALONE...So..if U barely see me hanging around U...its either ur…

— Joanne Lobedica

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous…

— Charles Krauthammer

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a…

— Walter de La Mare

“Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.”

— Sun Tzu

The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is…

— Bob Dole

Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen…

— Penelope Leach

“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“(a) Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever. (b) Cleverness didn't necessarily make a good prime minister. (c) If a…

— Arundhati Roy

it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or…

— John Calvin

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What is it to be witty, then?” “To say clever things.” “And what is cleverness?” “I …” Why was he having this…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Sometimes one 'needs' to use cleverness and kick wisdom aside.It's not everything that needs the application of wisdom, cleverness has a role…

— Emmanuel Aghado

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

— Oscar Wilde

She got me running back and forth like soccer team

— Mathew Brakett

If you want breakfast in bed. Sleep in the kitchen.

— Babloo

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

— Elbert Hubbard

A clever man tells a woman he understands her but a stupid man tries to prove it.

— Vikrant Parsai

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

— Albert Einstein

“Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about.”

— Samuel R. Delany

A man is not rewarded for having a brain but for using it well.

— Anonymous

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

— David Icke

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

— Thomas Mann

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

— Plato

“Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.”

— Aristophanes

You can achieve anything if you have the will to. Well, that and some divine help perhaps

— ChOupiz

“It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.”

— Amit Kalantri

Celebrate your own biases, they are probably brilliantly messy.

— Alastair Arnott

“People in love overvalue their heart and undervalue their mind.”

— Amit Kalantri